Morning Meditation

 

This week, in addition to Ephesians, we have been praying the hymn, “Take My Life”.  This hymn was written in 1874 by Frances Havergal.  She was a PK (preacher’s kid) who wrote over fifty hymns in her life.  She said the moment she committed her soul to God, “earth and heaven seemed brighter from that moment.”  When we, morning-by-morning, proclaim, this is the day God has made, new mercies/love/grace we notice, this was the way Frances Havergal lived her life.  Ms. Havergal learned Greek and Hebrew and sweetly sang the love of God.  Slow pray all the verse of Take My Life as a way we long to live this day:

Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days; let them flow in endless praise, let them flow in endless praise.

Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee, swift and beautiful for thee.

Take my voice and let me sing always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be filled with messages from thee, filled with messages from thee.

Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use every power as thou shalt choose, every power as thou shalt choose.

Take my will and make it thine; it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own; it shall be thy royal throne, it shall be thy royal throne.

Take my love; my Lord, I pour at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for thee, ever, only, all for thee.

Amen.